The Warm Hands of Ghosts
by Katherine Arden (Del Rey, 2024)
audiobook read by January LaVoy & Michael Crouch (Penguin, 2024)
Arden captures the normalised horror of the First World War, and both the overwhelming mental trauma and what must have been near-surreal fatalism of those who lived through it. Though the speculative element is neatly entwined, the story perforce remains downbeat, bemired.